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Theroux has a knack for creative observations and clarity, as well as an undeniably vast knowledge of literature and sex

by Sofia Resnick January 18, 2008September 30, 2025

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Court intrigue is hot stuff this season

by Margaret Moser January 18, 2008September 30, 2025

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It Is What It Is

The Year in Books

by Kimberley Jones, Belinda Acosta, Melanie Haupt, Rick Klaw, Spencer Parsons, Sofia Resnick and Jay Trachtenberg January 4, 2008September 30, 2025

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Profits from the sales of this priceless anthology of short stories will benefit 826NYC

by W. A. Brenner December 28, 2007September 30, 2025

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This massive biography of Allen Ginsberg, lovingly assembled by Ginsberg’s archivist, is a laborious read, at once fascinating and discomfiting

by Melanie Haupt December 21, 2007September 30, 2025

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Autonauts of the Cosmoroute is the record of an epic adventure on the Autoroute de Sud, cobbled together from fragments composed on the road

by Michael Agresta December 21, 2007September 30, 2025

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Part manifesto, part memoir, Robert Jensen’s book calls on men to reject pornography, join the feminist movement, and rise above preconceived notions of sexuality

by Terry Ornelas Woodroffe December 7, 2007September 30, 2025

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Shooting War, writer Anthony Lappé and illustrator Dan Goldman’s glossy, all-color graphic novel, is a political satire focused on the business of corrupt journalism, wars on terror, and networks shaking hands with governments

by Sofia Resnick November 23, 2007September 30, 2025

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Disco doesn’t have much to do with anything in Clane Hayward’s memoir of her late Seventies, peripatetic preteens, which were spent shuttling between a hippie mom, redneck dad, and anybody else with an open space – but not necessarily an open heart – in which Hayward could crash

by Kimberley Jones November 23, 2007September 30, 2025

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Author Kelly DiNardo recounts the fascinating life of ‘the queen of striptease’

by Rick Klaw November 16, 2007September 30, 2025

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If you think you know everything about how America is viewed by the people whom our troops are meant to be protecting, there is much in this volume that will surprise you